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Friday, June 29, 2012

What could be better than a summer trip to Birmingham to celebrate Katherine's off-night from DeSoto? Complete with shopping at the Summit, Target, Whole Foods, coffee shops, a lot of hilarious/serious talk, and a spontaneous trip to this place - Steel City Pops. A shop that sells only popsicles, and some really cool flavors at that:

[Lacey - Avocado, Anna - Sweet Tea, me - Mango, and Kat - Hibiscus]

Getting to spend time with these girls was the perfect mid-summer adventure. It is potentially going to be a long time before we get to be together again, but it was such a huge blessing to get the little bit of time that we did. I just love these people, and I think I speak for everyone when I say we left feeling incredibly refreshed and excited for what the future holds, even if it means we'll be apart for a while. Shout out to Birmingham for being an awesome place, too. I could definitely see myself liking living there.

But looks like I have my own city to figure out - I'm headed to Kentucky on Monday where I will hopefully finally really and truly learn my way around Lexington. Until then, just packing up and saying final goodbyes in Oxford. It doesn't feel real, but I think I am ready. Regardless, this overnight summer reunion was the perfect way to wrap up June.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I can't get this passage out of my head lately. I am continually struck by the simple fact that in a room full of people, even a room full of believers, some are different. Some stand out more than all the rest, but not because of anything they do. Simply because of who (or whose, maybe) they are. I've thought about this a lot this semester - how Enoch walked with God, so much so that he didn't even die, the Lord just took him up to Himself (Genesis 5:21-24). Something about Enoch was different.

Leave it to C.S. Lewis to put into words perfectly that which I can never seem to:

Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth.
Every now and then one meets them. Their very voices and faces are
different from ours; stronger, quieter, happier, more radiant. They begin
where most of us leave off. They are, I say, recognizable; but you must
know what to look for. They will not be very like the idea of “religious
people” which you have formed from your general reading. They do not draw
attention to themselves. You tend to think that you are being kind to
them when they are really being kind to you. They love you more than
other men do, but they need you less...

They will usually seem to have a lot of
time: you will wonder where it comes from. When you have recognized one
of them, you will recognize the next one much more easily. And I strongly
suspect (but how should I know?) that they recognize one another immediately
and infallibly, across every barrier or colour, sex, class, age, and even of
creeds. In that way, to become holy is rather like joining a secret
society. To put it at the very lowest, it must be great fun… [C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, "The New Men"]

Thankful for the "new men" I have been blessed to encounter - several this weekend during my time in Jackson - and hoping to continually live a life that looks more and more like Mr. Lewis's description. More and more like Enoch.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Sometimes in small groups
or Wesley or Muffin Club we do High/Low – go around the room and tell your
highlight of the week and then your low point.I have grown accustomed to mentally doing this myself, even
when I’m not sharing my thoughts with a group.The past 10-ish days have been filled with various highs and
lows.For example…

High: pool time with
friends

Low: sunburn that resulted from pool time with friends

High: realizing it is not
too difficult to make homemade pancake batter

Low: realizing there are
cockroaches in the flour you just used to make the pancake batter

High: having enough time to re-read Mere
Christianity

Low: somehow, even though
it is summer, still never having enough time to read what you want

Other highs include the
Farmer’s Market, good weather, summer flowers, spending time with one of my
incredible role models, and Summer Wesley.Other lows include the typical missing of my best friends,
and also the fact that healthy, delicious summer foods are expensive and I am
on a super low budget with little money to purchase them.My first attempt at P90X yoga falls somewhere
in the middle of high and low.High because it was hilarious, low because if I had to do one more darn
downward dog pose I might have lost my mind. (Seriously, it's always the downward dog - crazy!!) Overall, the past week or so has been a good one, and I am
finally remembering how to relax a little bit and enjoy summer.Looking forward to the rest of June
with hopefully lots more highs and not many lows to come!

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you see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, christ died for the ungodly. very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. but god demonstrates his own love for us in this - while we were still sinners, christ died for us. [romans 5:6-8]

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